{"id":6889,"date":"2010-08-07T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T20:02:22","slug":"clos-du-val-stags-leap-cabernet-sauvignon-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/clos-du-val-stags-leap-cabernet-sauvignon-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Clos Du Val Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clos Du Val, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District, Estate Bottled, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 <\/strong>The nose features a complex mix of black fruit, chocolate and earthiness. In the mouth it is quite dense and structured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/05-SLD-CS-label.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6889]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6901\" title=\"05 SLD CS label\" src=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/05-SLD-CS-label-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/05-SLD-CS-label-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/05-SLD-CS-label-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/05-SLD-CS-label.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>At this point it is just a baby but a long sleep in the cellar will certainly reward the more patient among you. The balance is there and that is what we look for in a candidate for aging &#8211; very nice.<\/p>\n<p>The grapes behind this wine include 14% Merlot. The wine was aged for 24 months in French oak, 50% of which was new. Winemaker John Clews. Produced and bottled in Napa 13.5% suggested US retail $70 a media sample<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clos Du Val\" href=\"http:\/\/closduval.com\" target=\"_blank\">Clos Du Va<\/a>l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clos Du Val, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District, Estate Bottled, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 The nose features a complex mix of black fruit, chocolate and earthiness. In the mouth it is quite dense and structured. At this point it is just a baby but a long sleep in the cellar will certainly reward the more patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,26,51,469],"tags":[886],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-napa-valley","category-stags-leap-district","tag-clos-du-val"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}